So Apple announced that third part development will be allowed on the iPhone and iPod touch, very cool news and certainly took them long enough to realize the desire there.
As I thought about this more I realized why Apple took the stance they did initially, they could see that this product was going to be very popular and widely used so to keep it from going the way of Windows where there are tens and hundreds of exploits and viruses a day being released Apple said no development then no exploits. I can understand this attitude, Apple has been skating by on their perceived security for a long time now. We all know that if the Mac were to have been as big as Windows is now then a lot of bad stuff would been released for it, perhaps it could not do as much but that would not stop the criminals from trying. So in order to avoid that security black eye Apple said no development outside of the browser, a strategy which has been an abysmal failure.
Going to be interesting to see what security they add to the iPhone since it apparently has little security at this point. If it did then it would not have been so easily hacked and then rehacked.
Leave a Reply